YAP Advisory Board

The founding YAP Advisory Board was established in 2005. Together with Sara Craig-Scheckman, these Advisors were critical in establishing the fundamental structure, mission, and granting policies of the Youth Advocacy Project. The founding Advisors included Renee Donahue, then Director of First Impressions of Routt County, Lane Malone, then Director of Partners in Routt County, and Gretchen Van DeCarr, then and current Director of Rocky Mountain Youth Corps.

Currently the Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation and its Youth Advocacy Project are fortunate to have an active Advisory Board made up of three individuals who have been involved with outstanding local youth advocacy organizations.

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Gretchen Van De Carr

Gretchen has served as Executive Director of Rocky Mountain Youth Corps since founding the organization in 1993. She has a MS in Environmental Engineering from the University of New Hampshire. Gretchen is a Bonfils-Stanton Foundation 2009 Livingston Fellow. She was a founding member of Routt County Youth Services Coalition (YSC), Partners in Routt County, the Community Evaluation Team, Grand Futures Prevention Coalition, and the Routt County Family and Adolescent Resource Council (FAR). She currently serves on the YSC, Yampa River Legacy Project Committee, and Routt County Human Resource Coalition. Gretchen has been with the Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation since inception and is a strong believer in the support of non-profit leaders as a strategy for sustainable success.

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Libby Foster

Libby worked for Partners in Routt County starting in 2003 first as a Case Manager for three years, and then as Executive Director until June 2012 when she left to spend more time with her young child and family. She earned a BA in Biology and a MA in Teaching Secondary Science from the Colorado College.  She was a member of the Routt County Youth Services and Human Resources Coalitions, and served on the Board of Directors for the statewide group, Partners Mentoring Association. Libby became an Advisory Board Member for the Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation in 2006, and she believes that the Foundation’s support and assistance with recipient organizations’ long-term sustainability is an especially distinctive and significant component of their work.

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Stephanie Martin

Stephanie first joined Routt County’s Early Childhood Council, First Impressions, in 2005 and in the role of Program Supervisor in 2006. She earned her BS in Human Development and Family Studies at Auburn University and a MS in Early Childhood Education from Jacksonville State University. Along with overseeing the early childhood systems-building work in Routt County, Stephanie is also an adjunct instructor for the Colorado Mountain College’s Early Childhood Program. This spring she is embarking on co- facilitating the first session of Getting Ahead in a Just Getting By World under Routt County’s Bridges Out of Poverty Initiative. As an advisor for Routt County’s Youth Advocacy Project, Stephanie enjoys being a small part of the huge impact the Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation has on strengthening resources for Routt County’s at-risk youth.

CSFF Advisory Board

The Craig-Scheckman Family Foundation Board of Directors, Sara and Michael Craig-Scheckman, recently established the position of CSFF Advisor.  The role of the CSFF Advisor is to work with the Board of Directors behind the scenes assuring the implementation of best practices, legal compliance, and overall structure of a family foundation.

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Brad Craig

Brad Craig is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the day to day operations of Deer Park Road Corporation (DPRC), with the exception of portfolio management and trading.  Brad has extensive experience in managing businesses prior to joining DPRC in 2007.  He was the President/CEO of a nationally recognized environmental laboratory.  Brad earned a BA in Geology and Environmental Science at the University of Pennsylvania in 1989, and a MS in Earth Sciences at Dartmouth College, New Hampshire, in 1991.  Brad is a native of California.  He moved to Steamboat Springs in 1991 with his wife Lara, and they have a son and a daughter.  Brad is a five-time Ironman, a former collegiate swimmer, a mountain and road biker, and Deer Park’s only true telemark skier.